fortunately, a -- unfortunately, the data tells us the economy is going to get even worse. in barcelona, they are trying to take attitudes like that in stride. >> persons in the army will appear. any kind of fear shows how weak is spain and spanish politics, defending or trying to avoid the politics. >> the economic impact of catalan independence is disputed, but at least it can be measured in facts and figures. what cannot be measured is feeling, and there is a huge wave of nationalist sentiment here. that put formal support for independence of around 52%, but what no one can know is the point at which the way it becomes unstoppable -- the way of becomes unstoppable. it is just a folk dance, but it is performed outside the theater every sunday and has massive significance. people died to -- for the right to speak their own language, sing their own folk song. up to now, the cultural freedom symbolized here has been enough to contain it, but we still do not know where the crisis ends. >> that was paul mason. the former secretary general of the united nations says he has spen